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Fujifilm S8200 talked me into bringing it home. 40x zoom, powered by 4 AA, 16megapixels, evf, nice feel in the hand….perhaps one gripe, seems there is no way to mount a glass filter which I prefer to fumbling with a lens cap. A very nice shooter in all other respects. The 40x zoom is great fun. Very solid feeling camera. I have been finding the Nikon D3100 with two lenses 18-55 and 55-200 too heavy a load to tote for everyday, casual shooting. This smaller, lighter package gives me a long reaching lens in a comfortable package. Price 249.00. AF seems smooth and fast to me. EVF is adequate. A good choice.

Cadbury and Sugarfoot posed for the new cam

my car posed as well, the frost is out of this dirt road not far from my habitation, a little south of Georgian Bay on the Sturgeon River

battery is rechargeable, shoots for a longish time, no problem with it so far.

The SZ14 indoors at night is perhaps a little too confident about its image stabilization ability. With ISO set to Auto, it often chooses 1/4 of a second, which produces mixed results. It is possible to chang ISO in Program Mode to ISO HIGH, but the camera is still cocky and only raises shutter speed to a less than quick 1/15th of a second. Part of the blame is my home is not terribly well illuminated and has lots of dark wood panelling, circa 1970 in it.

To be honest given how well this camera works generally, I am still working out if it isn’t me doing something dumb that is creating this dark at night slow shutter speed problem.

Other than this slight quirk, I like the SZ14 and carry it with me often becasue it is small, compact enough to be pocketable, and takes decent pictures. It also cost just $129.00